Known for the lawn that leads up to the tower at the top of the hill and the fringe of trees that surround it, its known all over the city, you can see it all over. And part of what the university is proposing as a mitigation is a landscape plan to make sure that those large mature trees are secure and safe. While one mitigation in order to be a mitigation, the trees have to exist. They have to survive the process along the way. And ill give you the example of what went on with loyola village. We were told at an imp meeting there that the campus landscape plan will protect those large mature trees. We didnt have to worry about them. We asked that they be marked during the construction or conditional use phase. They were. But that didnt stop the fact that my wife came home one afternoon and of the eight trees that were 50 to 70 feet tall right directly behind our property, six were already down and one of them stripped. It took her the rest of the morning to get some attention from usf
Campus housing will have a Significant Impact on future student veterans like myself who will be proud and thankful to have usf to come to after service. Thank you. Hi, thank you for having me here today. My name is eva long and i am a junior attending the university of San Francisco majoring in politics and minoring in public service. I am a First Generation College student from honolulu, hawaii i am also a pell grant recipient who highly depends on Financial Aid to go to usf and i am very fortunate to attend a university that cares about academic success and individual growth inside and outside of the classroom. Not only myself, but 30 of usf population depends on the pell grant as well. I support the building of a New Residence hall because i understand the need of it on campus. I was on campus for two years and has not only been convenient for dining and studying purposes, but it offered a space as well as able to get involved in different campus clubs and organizations. Being invo
Getting involved on campus. There are two large reasons why i support the building of a New Residence hall. One, i had no choice but to move off campus my third year at usf. It is difficult finding an apartment because it is a competitive area to search for housing. I found myself homeless through july and would often find myself web caming my roommate who would visit apartments. I was 2,500 miles away and it was very hard to communicate. Often [speaker not understood] skeptical for having me as a tenant because my parents did not speak english so they werent sure how to keep my family accountable if i were to miss a payment and there was no reliable contact to reach my parents. It was a stressful period for both my parents and i. Second, with housing opportunities available to students, it really does foster a great sense of community. Living in the Residence Hall for two years, i definitely have encouraged every student to continue to live on campus because you have that sense of com
It needs to include the fact those trees will be platted and marked on the site and given to the planner ahead of the design process so he he can avoid them. That was not done the first time around and i dont think its too much to ask that we go to that next level in terms of making sure those trees survive. I really feel that these need to happen at the imp process because if we await conditional use, once the building is designed its hard to change. And if you look at the plan in there a lot of those trees they show on the metric around the landscape excuse me, around the dormitory, will not be there. Theyll be gone. It will be too late. So, the screening that theyre proposing as a mitigation will not happen. I ask you to make them provide that before you accept the imp. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please, and let me call a few more names. Tanya solomon. Bob lee. Ruth levy. [speaker not understood]. Christin chris wall. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is ruth levy. I l
Plan will protect those large mature trees. We didnt have to worry about them. We asked that they be marked during the construction or conditional use phase. They were. But that didnt stop the fact that my wife came home one afternoon and of the eight trees that were 50 to 70 feet tall right directly behind our property, six were already down and one of them stripped. It took her the rest of the morning to get some attention from usf and some attention from the contractor. She saved one of those eight trees. That was all that was possible. Now, the university accepted that it was a mistake. They accepted that they really had some culpability here. So, what did they do . They offered to plant six fast growing tree. Ill tell you those six Fast Growing Trees have grown very fast. Theyre 20 feet tall now and dont block what they were supposed to block 13 years ago. Ill be dead before they become the screen theyre supposed to be. The issue is how can we prevent this from happening again . I